EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED)

Registered charity 307071 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EASTBOURNE COLLEGE

Education of boys and girls from 9 months to 18 years old.

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Latest income
£28.1m
Latest spending
£28.0m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity achieved an operational surplus of £1,789k, representing 6.2% of gross fee income, which meets the stated target of at least 5%. However, the Charity holds nil free reserves due to substantial fixed assets, relying on these assets and long-term debt facilities to maintain liquidity and continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Governors' children attending school on commercial terms
“Three Governors had children attending either school on the same commercial terms, including as to fee remission, as available to other parents.”
“Two close family members of key management personnel are employed by the Charity and received payments amounting to £100k (2024: £91k).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Key management personnel relatives employed by Charity
“Three Governors had children attending either school on the same commercial terms, including as to fee remission, as available to other parents.”
“Two close family members of key management personnel are employed by the Charity and received payments amounting to £100k (2024: £91k).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trading subsidiary transactions
“Three Governors had children attending either school on the same commercial terms, including as to fee remission, as available to other parents.”
“Two close family members of key management personnel are employed by the Charity and received payments amounting to £100k (2024: £91k).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: Governance Code non-compliance: Board size exceeds recommended maximum and members served >9 years
“The Governors are satisfied that the Charity applies the principles of the Code within its current governance arrangements except in two respects - the current Board comprises 16 Governors, which is greater than the recommended maximum of 12; and four of the Governors have served for longer than nine years.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Eastbourne College Enterprises Limited
“The Charity has one wholly-owned, non-charitable subsidiary, Eastbourne College Enterprises Limited” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Eastbourne College (Incorporated) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

53 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (41 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£28.1m
Total spending
£28.0m
Cost of raising funds
£1.7m
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
430

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£28.1m£28.0m
31/08/2024£28.2m£27.7m
31/08/2023£25.8m£25.5m
31/08/2022£23.1m£23.8m
31/08/2021£20.5m£21.3m

Common questions

Is EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Charity achieved an operational surplus of £1,789k, representing 6.2% of gross fee income, which meets the stated target of at least 5%. However, the Charity holds nil free reserves due to substantial fixed assets, relying on these assets and long-term debt facilities to maintain liquidity and continue operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) as a grant recipient include THE J A R CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ROTHERWICK FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE J A R CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£4k
THE J A R CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£4k
THE ROTHERWICK FOUNDATIONFY2025—Financial assistance towards the uniforms for one Bursary Student.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE DOOUSS CHARITABLE TRUST1£100k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED)£28.1m——unclear—no doubt
BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£7.3m——unclear—no doubt
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD FY2025£11.1m——above—no doubt
DURLSTON COURT SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£4.1m£90,001 - £100,0002above—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF EASTBOURNE FY2024£195k—0below—no doubt
NORTHBOURNE PARK SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025£3.0m——within—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.